Download or read book So You Want to be a Helicopter Pilot written by Gregory C. Bailey and published by Niagara Falls, Ont. : Information Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Hornet 33 written by Ed Denny and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combat helicopter pilots in the Vietnam War flew each mission facing the possibility of imminent death. Begun as a series of attempted letters to the Department of Veterans Affairs, this compelling memoir of an aircraft commander in the 116th Assault Helicopter Company--"The Hornets"--relates his experience of the war in frank detail. From supporting the 25th Infantry Division's invasion of Cambodia, to flying the lead aircraft in the 101st Airmobile Division's pivotal Operation Lam Son 719 invasion of Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail at LZ Hope, the author recounts the traumatic events of his service from March 1970 to March 1971.

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